1993 Cadillac Fleetwood

Brogham Sedan

5.7L 350Cu. In. V8 GAS OHV Naturally Aspirated

Automatic

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Clear

GAS

1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham-89k miles Top reasons for buying this baby -It's a Jurassic-era cream puff -It's a stellar example of early 90's hedonism -It's got Queen-Elizibeth class turning radius but is smooth like butter -It's perfect for getting to the 'early-bird special' at the Golden Corral -buy-it-now price is what the 'heated-seats option' cost in 1993 -You'll be one of a select few who has a car with $3900 seat heaters! -You can pick up the entire Swedish Bikini team hitch-hiking and fit them in the trunk! -The grand kids can play soccer in the back seat -You can be in two zip-codes...at the same time! -You can show your brother in law what you really think of his new Prius But seriously folks, check out the car-talk discussion groups on this car or have a look at Edmund's summary or Kelley's re-liability stats for this model. I couldn't find many complaints. It appears to be in the sweet spot of solid, dependable transportation with particularly good engine and transmission long-term reliability. As a former auto industry engineer, my take is that the car's reliability benefited from it's plain-jane 350 V-8 and nothing-fancy transmission--no 32-valve Northstar or cute "8-6-4" cylinder block off's on this car. And for a luxury car, it is shockingly bereft of bells and whistles--less to go wrong as the years go by. The Scoop -same owner for last 16 yrs -clean, fresh non-smoking interior -well serviced, always garaged -89,000 miles from new -very solid car with no major dings -starts, runs, shifts smoothly -everything working as expected -un-dinged windshield, tidy carpet and leather (except as noted below) -no check engine light or 'service soon' warnings -typical cushy caddie suspension and low effort steering -standard 350 v-8 good for 25+ mpg on the highway! Options -heated seats -security system -alloy wheels -after market fuzz buster! (in case you're in big hurry to get that mall-walk in before the early-bird) Recent Service -oil change/safety inspect (85k mi) -brake rotors, calipers, shocks, coil springs rplcd (85k mi) -4 new P235/70 15 tires (at 83k mi) -transmission service (82k) -fuel injector service (81.5k mi) Condition details -Left rear fender has some abrasion damage to paint (pictured) -Rear bumper trim is cracked on one side (pictured) -Driver's seat has 2 dime-sized holes in the leather near the seat controls -Sheet metal depression front left fender near headlight -A few small dings, scratches and wear consistent with age of vehicle -Underside is remarkably solid--no holes in pan, frame, rockers, etc (see pics) just surface corrosion consistent with life in Ohio -Muffler is solid and exhaust quiet but the outer layer of the muffler is peeling (sort of like a snake giving up it's skin) so that will be an order of business in a few months Pricing eBay allows auctions to be ended early when sellers agree to a best offer. contact me by email with your proposal. About the seller I make a living by providing accurate descriptions of the vehicles I list for family, friends and estates. I am not a dealer but I do have have clear title to the vehicle and the authority from the owner to complete the transaction. I will gladly provide any additional details you may require to make an informed bidding decision. 3rd party inspections are welcome. Note that I include pictures of the underside of the car--where much the money gets spent on used cars--information that most sellers apparently would rather not share with you. I am a mechanical engineer with 40 yrs experience in the vehicle industry aftermarket. I’ve raced, toured, modified, repaired and restored motorcycles and cars as a lifetime hobby. I sell vehicles for friends and family. I take full responsibility for my descriptions and enjoy a good reputation by making sure there are no surprises at delivery. I am not a dealer so there are no junk fees, no free TV’s, and no suspenseful consultations with “the sales manager” (that’s me)! Fly into Cleveland (CLE) or Akron Canton (CAK) and I’ll pick you up in your new airport limo! Scammers? Don’t even think about it! I do not do bundled shipping. I don’t care if you are in the merchant marine or your late dad was the president of Sri Lanka--if you don’t have a PayPal account we aren’t doing business, period. And furthermore, please practice your English on more gullible sellers. The boiler rooms you guys call from are so noisy these days I can hear your buddies in the background asking the same stupid scammer questions: “So why are you selling your... ‘item’…” The last scammer who tried to snag my e-mail is probably still trying to figure out how he got 250,000 messages about aluminum siding and free ginzu knives back in his mail. (It helps having a friend with a pHd in computer security). Bidders' Qualifications: Feedback less than 10? You must e-mail with your phone number so we can discuss my terms and conditions. I welcome legitimate international bidders and have sent vehicles to Europe and the middle east but please contact me before bidding to discuss your shipping plans. Optional extra reading If you have nothing better to do than read drivel from eBay sellers, here's a load of it that you can take on face value... Ahhh, 1993. Bill Clinton was inaugurated in Jan (let the good times roll, baby), the economy was looking up, gas cost $1.16 a galon; you went to regular movie theaters (because DVD's were 5 years away) and saw "Mrs Doubtfire", or "Robin Hood: Men in Tights". Speaking of technology, something that would be known of as 'the world wide web' was launched and car audio requirements were mostly met with high tech devices known as 'cassette tapes'--for some reason 'reel to reel' tapes never caught on for auto use. So, this Jurassic-era jewel that can be your's for a song (and no Glen Miller jokes here, OK?) but first a little about "Marginal Motors", our family's automotive juggernaut. Started around 1973 over a couple of Wiedemanns ("the coldest beer your can buy") by 'pappy and me'. Pappy was an army air corps mechanic who came home from WW2 and wound up with 10 kids and a long list of other serious mistakes, But he was a practical guy (note that was Wiedemann not Hienekin we were drinking) and since he was one of 13 sibs and I had 82 first-cousins just on his side of the family, we figured we already had a big enough market to do a part-time car business. So we became a thriving non-profit operation--not intentionally non-profit that is. Of course, a thriving non profit is one with growing losses, hey the more the better, eh? So do we pass the test of being a real company? You know, with employees, earnings, stuff like that? Naaa, there's just me but I have kept the company traditions alive like our motto says: "We crawl under what we sell." Our marketing department (yeah, me again) keeps churning out copy like: "If you didn't deal with Marginal Motors, we'd like to know who warned you". So I take care of the family vehicle needs--we find em, we fix em up, we recycle them and now and then we have one, like this Fleetwood that we reluctantly decide to 'sell to a good home.' (We used to have a 'bad home surcharge' but that was tough to manage). I actually do buy and sell a couple cars a month so the neighbors won't find out that I'm really the bum that my wife assures me I am. So, if it weren't for eBay feedback, you'd probably have stopped reading a while ago, but at one point I was tied with Mother Theresa and going after the Pope! So you can at least have confidence that my description is accurate and as complete as possible. But hey, we've got a car to sell here. A 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham! Totally sick (don't trust me, I'm a used car salesman, merely ask any teenager). Just to establish some value--heated seats were a $3900 option on this rolling living room and the 'available' CD player was a cool $872 add-on if you wanted to blast some early Snoop Doggy tunes or chill out with Whitney Houston. Lucky for you, this Jurassic-era cream puff does have the seat heaters. But no CD player. And I'm not making excuses here for the 'old GM' (you know, before the G stood for Government), but cup-holders had not been invented in 1993--or at least GM hadn't heard about them. Since that would have likely been an $850 option, you dodged another bullet here for the price of learning how to balance a coffee cup on your knee. The beast does have the 'optional' security system and dual front power seats--talk about the old GM, manual seats were standard on a Cadillac? So since it's only 'moderately loaded' this stellar example of early-nineties hedonism can be offered at our traditionally low opening bid of 98 cents. For those new to eBay or Marginal Motors and its pathetic excuse for a sense of humor, 98 cents is not 'the asking price', it is the 'opening bid', the first step of a long journey, as it were, we hope. If 98 cents were our 'target price' I'd be writing things like "you've seen similar vehicles at ridiculous prices like $1.50 and up..." For full disclosure, if there is only one incredibly astute bidder out there and he happens to have 98 cents, and that's where the auction ends, then that bidder is the proud new owner.